There are times when you don’t have access to the Internet to register a Linux system, such as an air-gapped network. The following demonstrates how you can register a Linux system without that system having Internet. You will need a system that does have Internet access, such as the one you’re using.
You will need to copy some text from the air-gapped Linux system and paste it into the customer portal, and in return you’re provided with the license file that you can copy back to the original Linux system.
On the air-gapped Linux system install Mandos and/or Vogan.
Run the commands and replace the <client-id> with your client-id. It can be found at the bottom of the customer portal home page:
cd /opt/cyber-compliance/bin ./licreq -o -c <client-id>
Now copy the resulting text which will be similar to the following:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Product: E8TOOLS Client: 6b538b249872a4333a03f87639a6329191d54335746ea887f568565ac133efa9 Hostname: server-99783 MID: a29bf09144092441e66d3943b585640c76acf54a2e874c333bc1467a8332a9e4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sign into the customer portal and navigate to License Host. Paste the above into the customer portal, and click the Submit button.
It will return the license file in the text field. Copy that text and paste it into the following file on the original air-gapped Linux system.
/opt/cyber-compliance/etc/license.dat
The contents will look similar to the following:
Product: E8TOOLS Client: 6b538b249872a4333a03f87639a6329191d54335746ea887f568565ac133efa9 Hostname: apple-99783 MID: a29bf09144092441e66d3943b585640c76acf54a2e874c333bc1467a8332a9e4 Expiration: 1763596710 Signature: I71/UxEIQOhn9yTNj413uc5lY1UfwsoqMQA5AgPDZSYcHqDb32EDF5y+AEj...
You can now use Mandos and/or Vogan.
The above license file examples has been modified to not work and is an example only.